Electrolysis

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Clay

Hello everyone, I think I read somewhere that high end yachts are utilyzing electrolytic energy to desalinate andor trickle charge batteries. Is there any truth to this? Or have I taken the proverbial longshort walk. Thanx Clay
 
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Franklin

hmmmm

If the objective is just to get electicity, then I would say no after reading this article (http://www.stardrivedevice.com/electrolysis.html), but in this case, the waste of pure water is also an objective for boaters. I wonder how many solor panels it would take to run a system to charge the batteries and produce drinking water. Summary of how I think it works. Solor panels capture energy and pass it on down to the system as electicity to be applied to salt water. That breaks out the H2 from the salt water. Now take that H2 and combine it with oxygen (O) and that will generate electricity which can be used to charge the batteries and pure water will be the waste which could be funnelled into the tank. When the tank is full, the system shuts down and the current from the panels would then be feed into the batteries. Kind of interesting, don't you think?
 
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Clay

Very Interesting

Thanks for the link Franklin Electrolysis is a relatively new interest of mine. I'm helping to restore a oneoff vintage Steam locomotive. As you can imagine, all of the parts are under a layer of rust. After disassembly I put the parts in 55 gal drums of water and detergent. The part becomes the anode and a sheet of metal is the cathode. I operate the drums off of a battery charger. I also collect vintage farm tractors and am setting up tanks to clean the old ag parts...I think that wind and solar generation of electrolytic energy is the way to go...How about a home unit for us country folk...could "save" the agricultural industry if they produced their own fuel......sorry for the digression... thanx Clay
 
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